Poststructuralism--as a name for a mode of thinking, a style of
philosophizing, a kind of writing--has exercised a profound
influence upon contemporary Western thought and the institution of
the university. As a French and predominantly Parisian affair,
poststructuralism is inseparable from the intellectual milieu of
postwar France, a world dominated by Alexandre KojEve's and Jean
Hyppolite's interpretations of Hegel, Jacques Lacan's reading of
Freud, Gaston Bachelard's epistemology, George CanguilheM's studies
of science, and Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism. It is also
inseparable from the structuralist tradition of linguistics based
upon the work of Ferdinand de Saussure and Roman Jacobson, and the
structuralist interpretations of Claude Levi-Strauss, Roland
Barthes, Louis Althusser, and the early Michel Foucault.
Poststructuralism, considered in terms of contemporary cultural
history, can be understood as belonging to the broad movement of
European formalism, with explicit historical links to both
Formalist and Futurist linguistics and poetics, and with aspects of
the European avant-garde, especially Andre Breton's surrealism.
Each essay in this unique collection by and for educators is
devoted to the work and educational significance of one of ten
major poststructuralist philosophers.
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